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(펌) From a Korean man
To: Ms. Megyn Kelly
kelly@foxnews.com

Why was S. Korean President, Park Geun Hye was impeached by congress?

I am an average citizen living in Korea, and I have been grossly disappointed at recent coverage by foreign media about what is happening in S. Korea.  You might have heard that President Park has been impeached mainly because of mainly corruption scandal.  However, I am going to prove that it is not the case.  To date, it has not yet been proved that President Park received even one cent from big corporations and others. Then why did Korean National Assembly impeach her?  There are several reasons for this comical political situation.

Opponents from All Corners

President Park has made many political opponents from many sides - corrupt politicians, influence-peddling business owners, power-hungry journalists, communist sympathizers in S. Korea, and leaders from China. Since being elected by a 51.6% majority vote in the presidential election, she has sent a lawmaker, Lee Seok Ki, to a jail for plotting an armed rebellion against Korea, with convincing evidence.  She has also passed a bill containing a tougher punishments for bribery and political corruption in the society, including for journalists and civil servants.  In addition, just before impeachment, her legal advisors were probing a potentially bombshell bribe case against big political figures, including a former president and ruling and opposition party leaders.  Internationally, in the wake of North Korea’s nuclear threat, President Park agreed to the deployment of THAAD anti-miss defense to S. Korea, which angered Chinese leader, Xi Jinping.  He openly told S. Korea, “I oppose THAAD,” and the Chinese government closed its door to cultural exchanges, reducing the number of tourists coming to S. Korea from China and the entertainers from S. Korea to China.  Domestically and internationally, President Park must have been between a rock and a hard place.

“Tabletgate”

Along the road to the president’s impeachment, a Samsung tablet has played the most decisive role to create wide-spread public anger.  On October. 24, 2016, a Korean TV cable station, JTBC, broke a scoop, saying it obtained a table PC that Che Soon Sil, “a close friend” of the president, once owned. JTBC TV argued that, on the table, it found a trove of documents of the president was supposed to deliver to the domestic gatherings and even documents containing sensitive national security issues.  The station concluded that Ms. Che has been holding these above President Park, controlling national issues.  Other major media bombarded the country with tabloid-like sensational news for several weeks, damaging images of the president and Ms. Che.  Ms. Che was eventually charged with wielding her influence over President Park to wrest about $70 million from major Korean companies such as Samsung and Hyundai.  After around six-week of street protests backed by labor unions, President Park accepted what the opposition party wanted: impeachment. The street protests in this case was heavily orchestrated by media and unions, showing live time demonstration and interviewing people.  In S. Korea, the media and the labor union have two of powerful labor unions and have been controlled by the opposition party.  The Korean National Assembly, also controlled by opposition parties, motioned for President Park’s impeachment bill and voted overwhelmingly to impeach the president.  The Korean Constitutional Court must decide whether to uphold the motion or abandon it within 180 days.
 
“Fake news” shattered

However, here comes a twister favorable to President Park.  The tablet, which had a “butterfly effect” against Park and Che and has been a tool fueling the witchunting, turned out not to be Ms. Che’s tablet but someone else’s. JTBC fabricated the tablet was Ms. Che’s.  Below, I linked a couple of Youtube sites as evidence that shows JTBC’s distortion of information.  One of them shows that